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Capitalism Quotes - III

Capitalism Quotes - III

1. You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. - Bill Gates

2. The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. - Mikhail Gorbachev

3. Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. - George Bernard Shaw

4. Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism. - Fidel Castro

5. Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. - Bill Gates

6. Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. - Bill Gates

7. I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But today, there is degree of caution around capitalism. We believe in compassionate capitalism. Growth for growth's sake can never be an end in itself. - Kumar Mangalam Birla

8. Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. - Rupert Murdoch

9. We are against crony capitalism. - Arvind Kejriwal.

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